Re: Re: Sharing a file between Mac and iOS

2012-07-19 Thread Marc Respass
I have written a Mac app (with another, i.e. non-Cocoa, language), and now that I'm developing iOS apps in Xcode, I'd like to create an iOS app that can share its files. The file format is fairly straightforward SQLite, and I've determined that I can work with it just fine with the FMDB

Re: Bottom-edge constraint not enforced in IB but is in runtime?

2012-07-10 Thread Marc Respass
, 2012, at 7:57 , Marc Respass wrote: I'm also finding that NSSplitView's pane views seem to have the translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints property set to true by default, even when built strictly in IB. Is this correct? Xcode 4.3.2. Hi Rick, I really encourage you to watch all

Re: Re: Bottom-edge constraint not enforced in IB but is in runtime?

2012-07-09 Thread Marc Respass
I'm also finding that NSSplitView's pane views seem to have the translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints property set to true by default, even when built strictly in IB. Is this correct? Xcode 4.3.2. Hi Rick, I really encourage you to watch all three WWDC 2012 videos on constraints. That

NSComboBox fails to notify delegate?

2012-07-09 Thread Marc Respass
Hi All, My NSViewController is the delegate of five different combo boxes in its view but the delegate methods are not being called. They do get called sometimes, but usually they do not. I haven't found exactly what the situation is where the delegate methods get called. I implement

Re: nstableview reload with animation possible?

2012-06-18 Thread Marc Respass
What I'm basically trying to do is call reloadData but with animation and I can't see how to do it? I know about removing/inserting rows with animation and I tried this, but I keep crashing and I would think it's because I'm removing rows and inserting rows after my datasource has been

Re: Localization based on location

2012-06-04 Thread Marc Respass
Hi John, I am American but I've been studying Spanish for years so I run my Macs and iDevices in Spanish but everything else is American (dates, punctuation, etc.). It really sticks out (in a bad way) when an app is partially localized or, based on my language setting, makes assumptions other

Re: how to prevent TableView update on key repeat?

2012-05-04 Thread Marc Respass
El may 4, 2012, a las 3:19 a.m., Quincey Morris escribió: On May 3, 2012, at 19:38 , Graham Cox wrote: You probably should do this as your last line: [self performSelector:blah withObject:nil afterDelay:[NSEvent keyRepeatInterval] + 0.1]; because the key repeat rate is set by the

Re: how to prevent TableView update on key repeat?

2012-05-04 Thread Marc Respass
El may 4, 2012, a las 1:02 p.m., Quincey Morris escribió: On May 4, 2012, at 08:25 , Marc Respass wrote: When I set the delay to zero, there is no delay. My selector is called immediately as if I didn't change anything. Not exactly. Consider what happens when you mash the arrow key

how to prevent TableView update on key repeat?

2012-05-03 Thread Marc Respass
Hi All, I have a master/detail table setup. When I select a row in the master, there are one or two detail tables that need to be updated. There are also a bunch of conditions that need to be checked to know what you can do to the master and the details. I have just finished a lot of

Re: how to prevent TableView update on key repeat?

2012-05-03 Thread Marc Respass
in a key repeat and send the notification in keyUp if wasRepeating is YES. That doesn't sound too bad, not too much code, no threading issues. Marc El may 3, 2012, a las 5:28 p.m., Quincey Morris escribió: On May 3, 2012, at 13:46 , Marc Respass wrote: Can anyone point me in the right

Re: how to prevent TableView update on key repeat?

2012-05-03 Thread Marc Respass
El may 3, 2012, a las 6:47 p.m., Quincey Morris escribió: On May 3, 2012, at 15:27 , Marc Respass wrote: I ended up finding a solution that almost works perfectly. - (void)tableViewSelectionDidChange:(NSNotification *)aNotification; { NSEvent *event = [NSApp currentEvent

Re: how to prevent TableView update on key repeat?

2012-05-03 Thread Marc Respass
El may 3, 2012, a las 7:27 p.m., Quincey Morris escribió: On May 3, 2012, at 16:07 , Marc Respass wrote: Do I have that correct? Yes, you do. :) Another way to think about it is this: the cancel suppresses all the selector performs except the last one. (There's *always* a last one

Re: how to prevent TableView update on key repeat?

2012-05-03 Thread Marc Respass
El may 3, 2012, a las 10:38 p.m., Graham Cox escribió: On 04/05/2012, at 11:25 AM, Marc Respass wrote: Excellent. Thank you again. [NSEvent keyRepeatInterval] returned 0.83 so I set the delay to 0.9 and it works perfectly. What was a slow process is now as smooth as can be. It even

Localizing MainMenu.xib?

2012-02-29 Thread Marc Respass
Hi All, My application is completely localized (though only two languages) everywhere except the menu bar. I'm not sure what the best approach is to localize the main menu. Some items like undo/redo are localized for me. Others are not. I admit that I am a little surprised that standard system

Re: Mac core data and iCloud example app

2011-10-16 Thread Marc Respass
Has anyone come across a sample app which demonstrates how to make a shoebox core data app which works with iCloud? I've dug into the documentation but I can't find any sample code. The What's new in Core Data on Mac OS X session from WWDC 2011 hints at some things but doesn't show any

Re: [Lion] IBOutlets, strong or weak?

2011-08-09 Thread Marc Respass
15:11:25 -0400, Marc Respass said: With Xcode 4, I can drag from a control to the header and Xcode will create an outlet and a property. I noticed that Xcode creates a property like this @property (strong) IBOutlet NSTextField *someField; But I have other code where it is defined weak

[Lion] IBOutlets, strong or weak?

2011-08-05 Thread Marc Respass
Hi All, I'm writing a Lion-only application and trying to do things more iOS-like (which appears to be the direction but regardless, I like it) by creating properties for my IBOutlets. I am using the latest Xcode 4.2 and ARC. With Xcode 4, I can drag from a control to the header and Xcode will

Re: Does anyone else dislike Xcode 4?

2011-07-24 Thread Marc Respass
I have to come down strongly in favor of Xcode 4. I've only been using Apple's dev tools since ProjectBuilder (not Project Builder) but Xcode 4 is definitely the best since then. The built in IB, the ability to view your xib on one side and the related file's owner code on the other and then

Re: Release a NSWindowController after the window is closed

2011-06-19 Thread Marc Respass
Hi Brian, The technique that I have been using for a long time is to alloc/init the window controller, make the window controller the delegate of the window, and invoke [self autorelease] in windowWillClose:. It's essentially the same thing you are doing with less code. The thing that I love

Re: Re: Sharing a model

2011-02-15 Thread Marc Respass
I had not designed my program as a document-based application because I did not think that I would save and open data files. However, I have changed my viewpoint. It might also make implementing your suggestions easier. Keep in mind that in an NSDocument-based application, your NSDocument

OK to share managed object model across MOCs?

2011-02-08 Thread Marc Respass
Hi all, I have an NSDocument based application and each document has its own core data stack (NSPersistentDocument is inappropriate for my application). Each document gets its own model, store coordinator, and object context. It occurred to me that the model is the same model for each document

Re: NSDocument without Save

2011-02-08 Thread Marc Respass
I'm trying to prevent NSDocument from doing any saving at all, for a demo version of my app. I need to suppress the menu commands (done) and all the automated UI such as the 'save changes' dialog and 'Save As' dialog even though the doc is marked dirty. I've also removed the actual save

Re: How to set tab order in a window that has view swapping

2011-01-25 Thread Marc Respass
Hi Abhijeet, Hi,I have a single window with a toolbar and a custom view in my application. Toolbar has Back and Next button on it. This is my MainMenu.xib. I have 5 more xibs other than the MainMenu.xib in my application. Each xib contains one view with different controls in it. On Next

How to make template images?

2010-09-10 Thread Marc Respass
Hi, I have a need for a lot of different template images in my apps. I have worked with my artist but she is not sure how to build a template image. We have both researched it and we are not finding much good information. The docs on template images say to use black and clear in the image but

Re: How to make template images?

2010-09-10 Thread Marc Respass
, Ken Ferry escribió: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Marc Respass marcresp...@mac.com wrote: Hi, I have a need for a lot of different template images in my apps. I have worked with my artist but she is not sure how to build a template image. We have both researched it and we

Re: [Cocoa-students] NewStyle Preferences

2010-06-20 Thread Marc Respass
Jeremy, I would go with a toolbar that swaps views. I think tab views are a fine control but before NSViewController, they were used in a tab-less style in order to make it easy to swap views. I think that approach is outdated. I would use a simple toolbar which you can setup in IB and swap

How to prevent NSURLDownload from changing my file's name

2009-10-21 Thread Marc Respass
Hi All, I have searched and can't find an answer to this. I am using NSURLDownload in an internal application. I connect to a server and download some files. Many times, the file name gets changed. I download file.xslt but the download system turns it into file.xslt.xml and then my app

Re: How to prevent NSURLDownload from changing my file's name

2009-10-21 Thread Marc Respass
: Hi Marc. Unfortunately, this is an Apple bug. What Content-Type does the server return, and can you control that? If so, then you can work around the bug by returning a custom Content-Type that isn't recognized by other applications. -Jeff On Oct 21, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Marc Respass wrote

Re: Programming Style: Method Definition with or without a semicolon.

2009-10-15 Thread Marc Respass
Ric 1) I've seen an alternative way of defining a method, with the semicolon after the declaration, before the body: - (NSArray *)sortedIncredients; -- notice the semicolon { ... } 2) ... versus the standard declaration + body of the definition (without the semicolon):

Re: KVO can be unsafe in -init?

2009-09-09 Thread Marc Respass
We have a singleton with an -init that looks something like this: - (id)init { if ((self = [super init])) { _foo = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init]; _bar = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init]; [[XYZManager sharedManager] addObserver:self forKeyPath:@allObjects

How to hide disclosure triangle in NSOutlineView [10.5]?

2008-09-19 Thread Marc Respass
Hi All, I have an outline view connected to a tree controller and I want to hide the disclosure triangle. I know that there is a data source delegate method, - (BOOL)outlineView:(NSOutlineView *)outlineView isItemExpandable:(id)item, but when I make my controller the data source of the

How to get a table column header with an image instead of text?

2008-07-20 Thread Marc Respass
Hi All, I have run a number of searches and cannot find any documentation nor examples for putting an image in a table column header. I tried setting the table header column cell to an NSImageCell but that failed fabulously. It seems that I need to sub-class NSTableHeaderCell and draw

Re: How to get a table column header with an image instead of text?

2008-07-20 Thread Marc Respass
to the column (or find it somehow) and in awakeFromNib, NSImage *image = [NSImage imageNamed:@CellImage]; [[theColumn headerCell] setImage:image]; Now to figure out how to prevent the sort indicator from displaying :). Thanks Marc On Jul 20, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Marc Respass wrote: Hi All, I have run

Re: How to get a table column header with an image instead of text?

2008-07-20 Thread Marc Respass
On Jul 20, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Jul 20, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: Le 20 juil. 08 à 19:54, Marc Respass a écrit : Hi again, I hate answering my own question but I did figure it out. I sub- classed NSTableHeaderCell then created an instance using

Need for a creator code?

2008-04-01 Thread Marc Respass
Hi All, I haven't registered for a creator code since System 7.5. Apple has information and registration page (http://developer.apple.com/datatype/index.html ) about it but no indication if it's actually still required. Can anyone tell me if it is still required or maybe point me at the

Prevent click through (Tiger and Leopard)

2008-03-11 Thread Marc Respass
Hi All, I am confused about how to prevent click through. My document puts up a window when a button is clicked. I disable the button then display the other window. If the user clicks off the other window (it resigns key), then I close it and re-enable the button. But the main window